Our client in the telecommunications sector is undertaking a major modernization and cloud transformation program, operating a range of sales-supporting applications and platforms. To strengthen cross-functional collaboration between business and IT, we are looking for experienced Senior Solution Architects / Solution Designers who can design scalable, cloud-based enterprise solutions while effectively bridging business requirements and technical implementation.
Role Overview:
As a Senior Solution Architect / Solution Designer, you will work closely with business stakeholders and development teams to design, optimize, and modernize large-scale enterprise applications. You will translate business needs into technically sound, cloud-native architectures, support the migration to AWS and OpenShift, and ensure alignment between strategic business goals and IT deliverables.
Tasks to be performed:
- Learn and understand the full product lifecycle and associated business processes across departments.
- Architect scalable, cloud-based solutions (AWS, OpenShift) ensuring long-term maintainability and flexibility.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather, refine, and document functional and non-functional requirements.
- Translate business requirements into conceptual and logical solution designs, considering system interfaces, data flows, and dependencies.
- Align solution designs with enterprise architecture, data governance, and integration standards.
- Provide architectural guidance on API integrations, data migration, and system interoperability.
- Support developers and architects during implementation by clarifying requirements and solution logic.
- Optimize and modernize legacy systems, refactor existing codebases to improve performance and maintainability.
- Prepare documentation such as process models, user stories, system context diagrams, and data models.
- Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to validate understanding and drive consensus on proposed solutions.
- Conduct impact assessments for change requests and contribute to effort estimations.
- Actively participate in the agile team setup (e.g., refinements, sprint planning, reviews) to ensure continuous alignment and incremental delivery.
- Perform defect analysis and propose architectural solutions to improve system stability.
- Mentor development teams and enforce best practices for system design, development, and deployment.
Required Qualifications:
- Several years of experience as a Solution Architect, Solution Designer, or Business Analyst in complex enterprise IT environments.
- Proven experience designing cloud architectures (AWS preferred) and containerized solutions (OpenShift/Kubernetes).
- Strong background in Java-based backend development, system integrations, and API management.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, technically sound solution designs.
- Experience modernizing legacy applications and refactoring large codebases.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to structure complex problems into actionable solutions.
- Hands-on experience with requirements engineering, process modeling (e.g. BPMN), and documentation.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture, event-driven design (Kafka), CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of system architecture and integration principles (SOAP/REST APIs).
- Industry experience in telecommunications, pricing engines, product catalogs, or quoting systems is a plus.
- Fluent in English (spoken & written) German is a plus.
Interested?
Please send your updated CV including availability and hourly rate expectations. We look forward to hearing from you!
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